ISER Podcast Series

In ISER’s Research Podcast Series, you can listen to researchers talk about their latest projects and findings. In audio interviews lasting around 5 minutes they explain the background to their work, discuss the data they have used and share and analyse their results and conclusions.

What can schools do to stop young people becoming excluded and falling into a life of crime? ISER Associate Liz Spencer talks about recent research examining the process that links low achievement, school exclusion and involvement in crime among African-Caribbean boys and young men.

Mike Brewer talks about recent research, Measuring living standards with income and consumption: Evidence from the UK, explaining how we see a different picture of inequality when we use consumption rather than income as the measure.

A new study finds that parents’ own academic achievements will impact significantly on their children’s chances of success at secondary school. Emila Del Bono talks to Christine Garrington about the research.

David Voas talks about new research published in the Annual Review of Sociology Islam Moves West: Religious Change in the First and Second Generations looking at whether Muslims arriving in the West (and their children and grandchildren) remain as religious as they were in their home country, or become more religious or less over time.